Hello, maya: You might want to get a fine-toothed comb and brush Hooker's fur to see if she may have fleas, or possibly a tick or chigger. A flea is a best bet, as the female eats a lot of blood in order to produce an egg. That also has the side effect of creating excess blood that makes it look like an injury. You should also look very closely to be sure she didn't get a tick embedded in her neck, as well. Have you treated your ferrets for fleas? I'm not sure what they have available over there, but here we use Advantage, Front Line and other such products, where you put drops on the neck (right on the skin, not the fur) and the product works its way all over the ferret and kills the fleas and other similar infestations. The products work quite well. I'm not certain, but you may be able to order this from places on the Internet, if they aren't available to you locally. Typically, I don't believe two ferrets playing normally would be able to draw blood. This is because a ferret's skin is quite loose and one ferret biting another will tend to bunch up the skin, rather than puncturing it. If Crook were biting her hard enough to cause Hooker to bleed, then that would be a viciously hard bite, indeed and I think you would have heard her squeal in pain. Todd and the Fuzzbutt Rodeo Clowns --- mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.netconex.com/toddl/page2/ [Posted in FML issue 3870]